A Palestinian activist at Columbia University spooked neighbors in his small Vermont town by bragging about his hatred of Jews and his background of building weapons for terrorist groups, according to interviews and 2015 police records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Mohsen Mahdawi, who had recently moved…
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Columbia’s Pulitzer Disgrace
The increasingly irrelevant Pulitzer Prizes were awarded on Monday to a slew of left-wing news reports, chronicled by our colleague Andrew Stiles here. The prize for commentary went to the “Palestinian poet” Mosab Abu Toha for his work in the New Yorker—”deep reporting with the intimacy of memoir,”…
Biden Defends Decision To Run Again Despite Age Concerns: I Was ‘So Successful’ It Was ‘Difficult To Walk Away’
Former president Joe Biden, 82, offered a semi-coherent defense of his decision to seek reelection in his first sit-down interview since leaving office in disgrace. “What happened was, I had become what we set out to do, no one thought we could do, and become so successful,” he…
WaPo Fact-Checker Who Attacked Tim Scott’s Black Heritage, Accused GOP of Lying About Biden’s Senility, Wins Journalism Award
Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s preeminent fact-checker best known for attacking Tim Scott’s black heritage and dismissing evidence of Joe Biden’s decline as a right-wing conspiracy, is finally being honored for his commitment to “truth, accountability, and transparency.” The Museum of Political Corruption announced Kessler as this year’s…
What Vibe Shift? Pulitzer Prize Board Affirms Media’s Obsession With Woke Politics
Mainstream journalists have yet to embrace the cultural “vibe shift” triggered by Donald Trump’s election in 2024 (and probably never will before the entire industry collapses in a heap of financial ruin). The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday, suggest the media remain as determined as…
University of Chicago Stats Professor Cancels Midterm, Pushes Students To Join Anti-Trump Protest Instead
A University of Chicago professor canceled a midterm Thursday and called on his students to use the time to join an anti-Trump protest, an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows. Yali Amit, a statistics professor who has long opposed Israel, told his machine learning and large-scale…
Racial Discrimination Persists at UCLA Medical School as Federal Investigation Is Underway, Documents Show
The Department of Health and Human Services launched a civil rights investigation in March into the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. The probe, HHS said in a press release, would investigate whether the school’s admissions office discriminates based on race. Less than two weeks…
Radical Transparency: Journalist May Run for Congress (as a Democrat, Obviously)
Hanna Trudo, a journalist who covered the Democratic Party for The Hill, is “exploring” a run for Congress in New Hampshire. It seems redundant to mention that Trudo would be running as a Democrat, but there you have it. Trudo is reportedly eyeing the open seat in New…
Columbia Med Students Condemn University After Classmate Who Stormed Library Returns to Campus
Columbia University medical students accused the Ivy League school of pushing a double standard after a classmate who was suspended following her arrest for storming a Barnard College building returned to campus. The student, Gabrielle Wimer, appears to be on course to graduate later this month. Wimer was…
Weekend Beacon 5/4/25
It’s been a rollercoaster of a ride, to say the least. Many of us wondered if the chaos and uncertainty would ever end. But it did. At long last, Shedeur Sanders was finally drafted in the fifth round by the Cleveland Browns. Not that I was worried—after all,…